New week and a new project! After watching BBC’s “A picture of Britain” featuring David Shringley, Robert Taylor, and Richard Billigingham we were introduced to our new project on time.
For this project we could create images on any digital medium, from DSLR’s to webcams.
So I got thinking, how am I going to represent time in my photographs, I could experiment with shutter speed and exposure, blur and freeze movement or shoot objects that physically represent time. But what is time any way? It’s some thing were obsessed with, always measuring, watching and constantly racing against.
I began to think about the fragility of time and how we are desperate to preserve it.
So I decided to make a “living sculpture” and still life from freezing flowers in ice. I liked the idea that the still life will melt and change from time. To me it also represents how no matter how badly you want to preserve and hold onto time it all slips away from you in the end.
These photographs were taken on my mobile phone as experimentations.
ORI GERSHT
This photograph is from the incredible series “Time after Time” by Ori Gersht in 2011. Gersht creates these incredible images by freezing beautiful arrangements of flowers and then exploding them. The flowers which communally represent fragility and amity then become victims and part of a brutal action. The photo’s to me depict a destruction of beauty. I think that Gersht's work really relates to my time project, and just goes to show what incredible photographs you can create when you continue to develop and idea and meticulously set up your photographs.
From the series Time after Time 2011
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